by Septuagint
[21] And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab. [22] And God was very angry because he went; and the angel of the Lord rose up to withstand him. Now he had mounted his ass, and his two servants were with him. [23] And when the ass saw the angel of God standing opposite in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand, then the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field; and Balaam smote the ass with his staff to direct her in the way.
[24] And the angel of the Lord stood in the avenues of the vines, a fence being on this side and a fence on that. [25] And when the ass saw the angel of God, she thrust herself against the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall, and he smote her again.
[26] And the angel of the Lord went farther, and came and stood in a narrow place where it was impossible to turn to the right or the left. [27] And when the ass saw the angel of God, she lay down under Balaam; and Balaam was angry, and struck the ass with his staff. [28] And God opened the mouth of the ass, and she says to Balaam, What have I done to thee, that thou hast smitten me this third time? [29] And Balaam said to the ass, Because thou hast mocked me; and if I had had a sword in my hand, I would now have killed thee. [30] And the ass says to Balaam, Am not I thine ass on which thou hast ridden since thy youth till this day? did I ever do thus to thee, utterly disregarding thee? and he said, No. [31] And God opened the eyes of Balaam, and he sees the angel of the Lord withstanding him in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand, and he stooped down and worshipped on his face. [32] And the angel of God said to him, Why hast thou smitten thine ass this third time? and, behold, I came out to withstand thee, for thy way was not seemly before me; and when the ass saw me, she turned away from me this third time. [33] And if she had not turned out of the way, surely now, I should have slain thee, and should have saved her alive. [34] And Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, I have sinned, for I did not know that thou wert standing opposite in the way to meet me; and now if it shall not be pleasing to thee for me to go on, I will return. [35] And the angel of the Lord said to Balaam, Go with the men: nevertheless the word which I shall speak to thee, that thou shalt take heed to speak. And Balaam went with the princes of Balac.
[36] And when Balac heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him, to a city of Moab, which is on the borders of Arnon, which is on the extreme part of the borders. [37] And Balac said to Balaam, Did I not send to thee to call thee? why hast thou not come to me? shall I not indeed be able to honour thee? [38] And Balaam said to Balac, Behold, I am now come to thee: shall I be able to say anything? the word which God shall put into my mouth, that I shall speak. [39] And Balaam went with Balac, and they came to the cities of streets. [40] And Balac offered sheep and calves, and sent to Balaam and to his princes who were with him. [41] And it was morning; and Balac took Balaam, and brought him up to the pillar of Baal, and shewed him thence a part of the people.
Chapter 23
[1] And Balaam said to Balac, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven calves, and seven rams. [2] And Balac did as Balaam told him; and he offered up a calf and a ram on every altar. [3] And Balaam said to Balac, Stand by thy sacrifice, and I will go and see if God will appear to me and meet me, and the word which he shall shew me, I will report to thee. And Balac stood by his sacrifice. [4] And Balaam went to enquire of God; and he went straight forward, and God appeared to Balaam; and Balaam said to him, I have prepared the seven altars, and have offered a calf and a ram on every altar. [5] And God put a word into the mouth of Balaam, and said, thou shalt return to Balac, and thus shalt thou speak. [6] And he returned to him, and moreover he stood over his whole-burnt-offerings, and all the princes of Moab with him; and the Spirit of God came upon him. [7] And he took up his parable, and said, Balac king of Moab sent for me out of Mesopotamia, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and Come, call for a curse for me upon Israel. [8] How can I curse whom the Lord curses not? or how can I devote whom God devotes not? [9] For from the top of the mountains I shall see him, and from the hills I shall observe him: behold, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations. [10] Who has exactly calculated the seed of Jacob, and who shall number the families of Israel? let my soul die with the souls of the righteous, and let my seed be as their seed.
[11] And Balac said to Balaam, What hast thou done to me? I called thee to curse my enemies, and behold thou hast greatly blessed them. [12] And Balaam said to Balac, Whatsoever the Lord shall put into my mouth, shall I not take heed to speak this? [13] And Balac said to him, Come yet with me to another place where thou shalt not see the people, but only thou shalt see a part of them, and shalt not see them all; and curse me them from thence.
[14] And he took him to a high place of the field to the top of the quarried rock, and he built there seven altars, and offered a calf and a ram on every altar. [15] And Balaam said to Balac, Stand by thy sacrifice, and I will go to enquire of God. [16] And God met Balaam, and put a word into his mouth, and said, return to Balac, and thus shalt thou speak. [17] And he returned to him: and he also was standing by his whole-burnt-sacrifice, and all the princes of Moab with him; and Balac said to him, What has the Lord spoken? [18] And he took up his parable, and said, rise up, Balac, and hear; hearken as a witness, thou son of Sepphor. [19] God is not as man to waver, nor as the son of man to be threatened; shall he say and not perform? shall he speak and not keep to his word? [20] Behold, I have received commandment to bless: I will bless, and not turn back. [21] There shall not be trouble in Jacob, neither shall sorrow be seen in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, the glories of rulers are in him. [22] It was God who brought him out of Egypt; he has as it were the glory of a unicorn. [23] For there is no divination in Jacob, nor enchantment in Israel; in season it shall be told to Jacob and Israel what God shall perform. [24] Behold, the people shall rise up as a lion’s whelp, and shall exalt himself as a lion; he shall not lie down till he have eaten the prey, and he shall drink the blood of the slain.
[25] And Balac said to Balaam, Neither curse the people at all for me, nor bless them at all. [26] And Balaam answered and said to Balac, Spoke I not to thee, saying, Whatsoever thing God shall speak to me, that will I do? [27] And Balac said to Balaam, Come and I will remove thee to another place, if it shall please God, and curse me them from thence. [28] And Balac took Balaam to the top of Phogor, which extends to the wilderness. [29] And Balaam said to Balac, build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven calves, and seven rams. [30] And Balac did as Balaam told him, and offered a calf and a ram on every altar.
Chapter 24
[1] And when Balaam saw that it pleased God to bless Israel, he did not go according to his custom to meet the omens, but turned his face toward the wilderness. [2] And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and sees Israel encamped by their tribes; and the Spirit of God came upon him. [3] And he took up his parable and said, Balaam son of Beor says, the man who sees truly says, [4] he says who hears the oracle of the Mighty One, who saw a vision of God in sleep; his eyes were opened: [5] How goodly are thy habitations, Jacob, and thy tents, Israel! [6] as shady groves, and as gardens by a river, and as tents which God pitched, and as cedars by the waters. [7] There shall come a man out of his seed, and he shall rule over many nations; and the kingdom of Gog shall be exalted, and his kingdom shall be increased. [8] God led him out of Egypt; he has as it were the glory of a unicorn: he shall consume the nations of his enemies, and he shall drain their marrow, and with his darts he shall shoot through the enemy. [9] He lay down, he rested as a lion, and as a young lion; who shall stir him up? they that bless thee are blessed, and they that curse thee are cursed.
[10] And Balac was angry with Balaam, and clapped his hands together; and Balac said to Balaam, I called thee to curse my enemy, and behold thou hast decidedly blessed him this third time. [11] Now therefore flee to thy place: I said, I will honour thee, but now the Lord has deprived thee of glory. [12] And Balaam said to Balac, Did I not speak to
thy messengers also whom thou sentest to me, saying, [13] If Balac should give me his house full of silver and gold, I shall not be able to transgress the word of the Lord to make it good or bad by myself; whatsoever things God shall say, them will I speak. [14] And now, behold, I return to my place; come, I will advise thee of what this people shall do to thy people in the last days.
[15] And he took up his parable and said,
Balaam the son of Beor says, the man who sees truly says, [16] hearing the oracles of God, receiving knowledge from the Most High, and having seen a vision of God in sleep; his eyes were opened. [17] I will point to him, but not now; I bless him, but he draws not near: a star shall rise out of Jacob, a man shall spring out of Israel; and shall crush the princes of Moab, and shall spoil all the sons of Seth. [18] And Edom shall be an inheritance, and Esau his enemy shall be an inheritance of Israel, and Israel wrought valiantly. [19] And one shall arise out of Jacob, and destroy out of the city him that escapes. [20] And having seen Amalec, he took up his parable and said, Amalec is the first of the nations; yet his seed shall perish. [21] And having seen the Kenite, he took up his parable and said, thy dwelling-place is strong; yet though thou shouldest put thy nest in a rock, [22] and though Beor should have a skillfully contrived hiding-place, the Assyrians shall carry thee away captive. [23] And he looked upon Og, and took up his parable and said, Oh, oh, who shall live, when God shall do these things? [24] And one shall come forth from the hands of the Citians, and shall afflict Assur, and shall afflict the Hebrews, and they shall perish together. [25] And Balaam rose up and departed and returned to his place, and Balac went to his own home.
Chapter 25
[1] And Israel sojourned in Sattin, and the people profaned itself by going a-whoring after the daughters of Moab. [2] And they called them to the sacrifices of their idols; and the people ate of their sacrifices, and worshipped their idols. [3] And Israel consecrated themselves to Beel-phegor; and the Lord was very angry with Israel. [4] And the Lord said to Moses, Take all the princes of the people, and make them examples of judgment for the Lord in the face of the sun, and the anger of the Lord shall be turned away from Israel. [5] And Moses said to the tribes of Israel, Slay ye every one his friend that is consecrated to Beel-phegor. [6] And, behold, a man of the children of Israel came and brought his brother to a Madianitish woman before Moses, and before all the congregation of the children of Israel; and they were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of witness. [7] And Phinees the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, and rose out of the midst of the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand, [8] and went in after the Israelitish man into the chamber, and pierced them both through, both the Israelitish man, and the woman through her womb; and the plague was stayed from the children of Israel. [9] And those that died in the plague were four and twenty thousand.
[10] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, [11] Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest has caused my wrath to cease from the children of Israel, when I was exceedingly jealous among them, and I did not consume the children of Israel in my jealousy. [12] Thus do thou say to him, Behold, I give him a covenant of peace: [13] and he and his seed after him shall have a perpetual covenant of priesthood, because he was zealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel. [14] Now the name of the smitten Israelitish man, who was smitten with the Madianitish woman, was Zambri son of Salmon, prince of a house of the tribe of Symeon. [15] And the name of the Madianitish woman who was smitten, was Chasbi, daughter of Sur, a prince of the nation of Ommoth: it is a chief house among the people of Madiam.
[16] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, saying, [17] Plague the Madianites as enemies, and smite them, [18] for they are enemies to you by the treachery wherein they ensnare you through Phogor, and through Chasbi their sister, daughter of a prince of Madiam, who was smitten in the day of the plague because of Phogor.
Chapter 26
[1] And it came to pass after the plague, that the Lord spoke to Moses and Eleazar the priest, saying, [2] Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, according to the houses of their lineage, every one that goes forth to battle in Israel.
[3] And Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke in Araboth of Moab at the Jordan by Jericho, saying, [4] This is the numbering from twenty years old and upward as the Lord commanded Moses. And the sons of Israel that came out of Egypt are as follows: [5] Ruben was the first-born of Israel: and the sons of Ruben, Enoch, and the family of Enoch; to Phallu belongs the family of the Phalluites. [6] To Asron, the family of Asroni: to Charmi, the family of Charmi. [7] These are the families of Ruben; and their numbering was forty-three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.
[8] And the sons of Phallu were Eliab,
— [9] and the sons of Eliab, Namuel, and Dathan, and Abiron: these are renowned men of the congregation; these are they that rose up against Moses and Aaron in the gathering of Core, in the rebellion against the Lord. [10] And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up them and Core, when their assembly perished, when the fire devoured the two hundred and fifty, and they were made a sign. [11] But the sons of Core died not.
[12] And the sons of Symeon: — the family of the sons of Symeon: to Namuel, belonged the family of the Namuelites; to Jamin the family of the Jaminites; to Jachin the family of the Jachinites. [13] To Zara the family of the Zaraites; to Saul the family of the Saulites. [14] These are the families of Symeon according to their numbering, two and twenty thousand and two hundred.
[15] And the sons of Juda, Er and Aunan; and Er and Aunan died in the land of Chanaan. [16] And these were the sons of Juda, according to their families: to Selom belonged the family of the Selonites; to Phares, the family of the Pharesites; to Zara, the family of the Zaraites. [17] And the sons of Phares were, to Asron, the family of the Asronites; to Jamun, the family of the Jamunites. [18] These are the families of Juda according to their numbering, seventy-six thousand and five hundred.
[19] And the sons of Issachar according to their families: to Thola, the family of the Tholaites; to Phua, the family of the Phuaites. [20] To Jasub, the family of the Jasubites; to Samram, the family of the Samramites. [21] These are the families of Issachar according to their numbering, sixty-four thousand and four hundred.
[22] The sons of Zabulon according to their families: to Sared, the family of the Saredites; to Allon, the family of the Allonites; to Allel, the family of the Allelites. [23] These are the families of Zabulon according to their numbering, sixty thousand and five hundred.
[24] The sons of Gad according to their families: to Saphon, the family of the Saphonites; to Angi, the family of the Angites; to Suni, the family of the Sunites; [25] to Azeni, the family of the Azenites; to Addi, the family of the Addites: [26] to Aroadi, the family of the Aroadites; to Ariel, the family of the Arielites. [27] These are the families of the children of Gad according to their numbering, forty-four thousand and five hundred.
[28] The sons of Aser according to their families; to Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; to Jesu, the family of the Jesusites; to Baria, the family of the Bariaites. [29] To Chober, the family of the Choberites; to Melchiel, the family of the Melchielites. [30] And the name of the daughter of Aser, Sara. [31] These are the families of Aser according to their numbering, forty-three thousand and four hundred.
[32] The sons of Joseph according to their families, Manasse and Ephraim.
[33] The sons of Manasse. To Machir the family of the Machirites; and Machir begot Galaad: to Galaad, the family of the Galaadites. [34] And these are the sons of Galaad; to Achiezer, the family of the Achiezerites; to Cheleg, the family of the Chelegites. [35] To Esriel, the family of the Esrielites; to Sychem, the family of the Sychemites. [36] To Symaer, the family of the Symaerites; and to Opher, the family of the Opherites. [37] And to Salpaad the son of Opher there were no sons, but daughters: and these were the names of the daughters of Salpaad; Mala, and Nua, and E
gla, and Melcha, and Thersa. [38] These are the families of Manasse according to their numbering, fifty-two thousand and seven hundred.
[39] And these are the children of Ephraim; to Suthala, the family of the Suthalanites; to Tanach, the family of the Tanachites. [40] These are the sons of Suthala; to Eden, the family of the Edenites. [41] These are the families of Ephraim according to their numbering, thirty-two thousand and five hundred: these are the families of the children of Joseph according to their families.
[42] The sons of Benjamin according to their families; to Bale, the family of the Balites; to Asyber, the family of the Asyberites; to Jachiran, the family of the Jachiranites. [43] To Sophan, the family of the Sophanites. [44] And the sons of Bale were Adar and Noeman; to Adar, the family of the Adarites; and to Noeman, the family of the Noemanites. [45] These are the sons of Benjamin by their families according to their numbering, thirty-five thousand and five hundred.
[46] And the sons of Dan according to their families; to Same, the family of the Sameites; these are the families of Dan according to their families. [47] All the families of Samei according to their numbering, sixty-four thousand and four hundred.
[48] The sons of Nephthali according to their families; to Asiel, the family of the Asielites; to Gauni, the family of the Gaunites. [49] To Jeser, the family of the Jeserites; to Sellem, the family of the Sellemites. [50] These are the families of Nephthali, according to their numbering, forty thousand and three hundred.